Standup Notes 2021 06 08

Participants (alphabetical): Allie, Conor, Cory, Erik, John, Kevin, Nina, Ro

Top priorities

1. Land Safe Deletion support for SecureDrop Client and associated SDK changes
2. Land remaining release blockers for SecureDrop 2.0.0 and begin QA
3. Organize knowledge-shares focused on:

• CI improvement opportunities (collaboration w/ infra)
• SecureDrop Workstation provisioning logic

Topics and Call-outs

Support Sync

• Quick pilot updates
• Chat about codename UX research

2.0.0 feature freeze

• Babel PR will go in soon
• Preparing changelog and RC
• John can handle localization management logistics today

SDW fresh install testing

• Conor will test fresh install in staging environment using template on yum-test, with goal to promote RPM ASAP

Allie

Yesterday:

• eng meeting on key management in qubes
• reviewed client pr: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1261

Today:

• traffic, bus factor meetings, maybe infra sync

• review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/1262

• around for fresh prod install with new template

• if time allows, https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-export/issues/40

• Consensus on copying sd-journalist.sec and config.json to vault vm for backup strategy? Custom vault tags should be restored once the vault vm is restored.

  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-docs/pull/81

Blockers or Asks:

• review: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/704

  • Conor will take a look

Conor

Yesterday:

• Review of new SDW template RPM, merged to yum-test
• Early review of CI image update in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/5976, requested changes

Today:

• Fresh install of new template: staging env, on hardware, via yum-test
• Worth testing dual-signing of securedrop-workstation-dom0-config rpm?
• Review https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation/pull/704

Blockers or Asks:

• None

Erik

Yesterday:

• Hiring work/contracts
• Knowledge share
• Translation comment review; appended one small string fix to wordlist PR

Today:

• Hiring/contracts
• Docs review

Blockers or Asks: None

John

Yesterday:

• Babel/i18n_tool test oddities

Today:

• LM fun
• safe deletion tests

Blockers or Asks:

• none

Kev

Yesterday:

• reviewed/approved SD core upgrade scenario PR
• approved flag-for-reply pr

Today:

• various meetings
• 2.0.0 RM duties

Blockers or Asks: None

Nina

Yesterday:

• UxR transcription final (from last week)
• Erik 1:1 on SUI stuff
• Nudged the no-delete-automation post-install in Templates thing in Qubes Issues

Today:

• SUI research prep

Blockers or Asks: Ding, dong, Flag For Reply is gone, woo!!

Ro

Yesterday:

• support comms
• knowledge share meeting
• docs PR changes/comments on sdw docs #81
• backup and restore checks

Today:

• finish docs PR
• onion name
• support comms

Blockers or Asks:

• ask: Consensus on copying sd-journalist.sec and config.json to vault vm for backup strategy (Conor's suggestion)?

  • https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation-docs/pull/81

Cory

Yesterday: non-FPF day apart from:

• Attended knowledge-sharing session

Today:

• Familiarizing myself with previous and current sprints' top priorities
• Initial research into i18n/l10n approach for securedrop-client#239

Blockers or Asks:

• Kev: feedback welcome on a11y prioritization spreadsheet linked in securedrop#5972 -> will organize review meeting